Physics at Augustana College

Every physics school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the physics program at Augustana College stacks up to those at other schools.

Augustana is located in Rock Island, Illinois and has a total student population of 2,389. Of the 914 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Augustana College in 2021, 3 of them were physics majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Physics section at the bottom of this page.

Augustana Physics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

Augustana Physics Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the physics progam at Augustana compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The physics major at Augustana is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Physics. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	352
Most Focused Physics Schools	492
Most Popular Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	508

Physics Student Demographics at Augustana

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the physics majors at Augustana College.

Augustana Physics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of physics bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women. The typical physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Augustana since its program graduates 42% more women than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in physics at Augustana are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its physics bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Augustana College with a bachelor's in physics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Augustana also has a doctoral program available in physics. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Chemistry
• Geological & Earth Sciences

Careers That Physics Grads May Go Into

A degree in physics can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Augustana College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
High School Teachers	43,720	$72,370
Natural Sciences Managers	1,950	$118,480
Physicists	810	$114,320
Physics Postsecondary Professors	640	$92,130

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Smallbones under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.